I Love Our Life

Thought I'd take a few minutes to go over the process of how a song I wrote just two weeks ago is already pro-demoed and being pitched by my songplugger here in Nashville.
Recently, I was experimenting on my iMac in Garageband with different loops and tracks. It seemed evrything i tried complimented the other tracks and before i knew it I had an intro, verse and chorus. The wonderful thing about computer composing is you can then copy/paste and suddenly you have 3 verses and choruses. It took an hour or so though to find an appropriate sound for the bridge. A mandolin and acoustic guitar track filled the need.As I was putting this all together, I kept humming a melody to the tracks - I used GB's piano/keyboard interface and created a melody line using one of the organ voice sounds available but I was playing the notes on the computer keyboard.
But,what about lyrics? I try to always jot ideas down in a notebook or on my laptop. I had a lyric I'd written back in January titles "How I Love Life" - I'd forgotten completely about it - but as usually happens, in reviewing the lyric 4 months later - it sucked. But I liked the title.I couldn't get "How I Love Life" to roll off the tongue easy and at one point I just sang... "I Love Our Life"... those light bulbs went off all over the place.
With that title the lyrics seemed to complete themselvesBut again the hard part was the bridge - what do I say that's different yet ties everything together? In the versesI tried to convey movemnt through life - two people (tried to be gender neutral) loving each other for a long time sharing life's experiences. So it became simple - the bridge was "Side by side - Hand in hand" which flows into verse 3 that's is about moving on together into the next plane of existence.
So, I laid the vocal down and the song was finished in about 4 hours. I knew I had something when my wife heard it and was humming it 10 minutes later after hearing it.I emailed the song to my cousin, Bryan who is also a songwriter. One of his suggestions was to add to the vocals in the chorus - he was right so the repeating echoes were added (later leading to the duet possibility).
I normally send my songs to my songplugger, Chris Keaton, after they've been studio demoed but I wasn't sure if I had something worthy to spend my unemployment check on (smile).... I emailed my demo to Chris who emailed back that the song really worked for him and with it's universal appeal should be very pitchable. My wife had mentioned she thought it sounded like it could be a duet - that had not occurred to me but it reviewing it I saw the same thing.I sent my tracks to my favorite demo producer, Kent Goodson, who got a male and female to sing the duet. After some tweeking we got the sound to work. Normally you can write key transitions in but since I'd made the tracks in my key they had to really work around that but they did!So the first song on my player http://www.reverbnation.com/davecolvin is the song now being pitched just shortly after it was created called...I LOVE OUR LIFE -
Thought you'd enjoy the process of creating this particular song - not really my usual way of writing, but it worked so that's all that matters!
Best to all
Dave